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Historical Bibliography Updated: April 5, 2018

Dissertatio academica de cancro.

Publication Details

Paris: apud De Hansy juniorem, 1774 CE.

Peyrilhe was the first to attempt an experimental study to determine the nature of cancer. He injected fluid from human mammary cancer into a dog; however, the dog howled and aggravated his housekeeper, who drowned it. Peyrilhe recognized for the first time the essential unity of the many different forms of cancer. French edition, 1776. English translation, London, 1777. Digital facsimile of the 1774 edition from Google Books at this link.

Thematic Classifications

Catalog MetadataReference Information
Entry Number#2608
Permanent Linkhttps://staging.historyofmedicine.com/entry/3066
Author Bio LinkWikipedia ↗
External URLdissertano-academica-de-cancro

Geographic Context

Publication place: Paris

Mentioned in annotation: London